Cristina Odone is a journalist, novelist and broadcaster specialising in the relationship between society, families and faith. She is the director of communications for the Legatum institute and is a former editor of the Catholic Herald and deputy editor of the New Statesman. She is married and lives in west London with her husband, two stepsons and a daughter. Her new ebook No God Zone is now available on Kindle.

Is time running out for that poor old Christmas turkey, Richard Dawkins?

It must be Christmas: Richard Dawkins, has gobbled-gobbledy-gooked on television. Like a turkey, Dawkins regularly crops up at Christmas, stuffed with nonsense he wants us to feed on. The message this year is that "being raised a Catholic is worse than child abuse". Mehdi Hasan, a practicing Muslim, interviewed the strident atheist for the programme: "Horrible as sexual abuse no doubt was, the damage was arguably less than the long-term psychological damage inflicted by bringing the child up Catholic in the first place." It's a shame Mr Hasan did not ask the former Oxford Professor about Islam: the two could have had a very telegenic row about incendiary remarks Dawkins made about Islam stuffing school children's heads with nonsense.

But although the interview robs us of the entertaining spectacle of a Hasan-Dawkins spat, it raises a rather wonderful prospect. For the fanatical Dawkins is relegated to Al Jazeera. The Messiah of Atheism preaching to Muslims won't make any impact: many will disregard, a priori, the infidel's words on any religious subject.

Here's what gives me hope: the interview in which Dawkins unleashes his prejudice and bigotry is NOT – Hallelujah! – featured on the BBC, ITV or even Channel 4.